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The Bright Ages - A New History of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
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The Bright Ages - A New History of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
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Loot Price R298
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"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in
this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text
for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a
rare thing-a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy
reading."-Slate "Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." -The
Boston Globe A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes
common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the
beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality-a
brilliant reflection of humanity itself. The word "medieval"
conjures images of the "Dark Ages"-centuries of ignorance,
superstition, stasis, savagery, and poor hygiene. But the myth of
darkness obscures the truth; this was a remarkable period in human
history. The Bright Ages recasts the European Middle Ages for what
it was, capturing this 1,000-year era in all its complexity and
fundamental humanity, bringing to light both its beauty and its
horrors. The Bright Ages takes us through ten centuries and
crisscrosses Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa,
revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon
them. We look with fresh eyes on the Fall of Rome, Charlemagne, the
Vikings, the Crusades, and the Black Death, but also to the
multi-religious experience of Iberia, the rise of Byzantium, and
the genius of Hildegard and the power of queens. We begin under a
blanket of golden stars constructed by an empress with Germanic,
Roman, Spanish, Byzantine, and Christian bloodlines and end nearly
1,000 years later with the poet Dante-inspired by that same
twinkling celestial canopy-writing an epic saga of heaven and hell
that endures as a masterpiece of literature today. The Bright Ages
reminds us just how permeable our manmade borders have always been
and of what possible worlds the past has always made available to
us. The Middle Ages may have been a world "lit only by fire" but it
was one whose torches illuminated the magnificent rose windows of
cathedrals, even as they stoked the pyres of accused heretics. The
Bright Ages contains an 8-page color insert.
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